Goals and the Big Picture
by
David B. South
Reprint from the 1999 Fall Roundup
 David B. South, President of the Monolithic Dome Institute |
Goals are
like road maps. If you reach for a goal and get side tracked, it is no
more serious than driving for a destination and missing a turn. On the
other hand, very few people ever get anywhere by wandering aimlessly.
It is not terribly important that we always reach our goals, nor is it
necessarily important that we always maintain the same goals. In fact,
a healthy individual changes goals from time to time. We sometimes realize
after pursuing a goal that it is not as worthy of our time as we once
determined.
The Monolithic Dome building business is no different than any other business.
We need goals. Obviously, one of our goals is building domes. Here are
a few, less obvious reasons why The Monolithic Dome Institute dedicates
so much time and energy to dome building:
- Teach, train, expound, push, proselyte, promote, and further advance the use of the Monolithic Dome for the benefit of people everywhere. We honestly know and believe that no other structure can be as cost-effective or beneficial as a Monolithic Dome for most installations.
- Train at least 1000 active Monolithic Dome builders. The idea is to create a critical mass. We will reach our critical mass when every state and every part of the world has several dome builders, so clients can have a variety of options in their goals. We continue holding our workshops, here at our headquarters in Italy, Texas, as a way of attaining our goal. We believe that as more people realize the benefits of the Monolithic Domes, demand will increase, eventually outstripping the dome builders' ability to meet that demand.
- Continue research and development. Over the years, we built small domes, big domes, low domes, high domes. We built domes for churches, schools, homes, offices, storages, and more. As we continue our research and development we find more uses for the Monolithic Dome.
- Build affordable senior citizen housing units. We know many people are working on this same goal, but it continues eluding our construction industry. Senior living units must not only be affordable, but safe and secure, with social benefits for the residents.
Goals are
road maps. Many people can have the same goal-travel the same road. We
are delighted to share our goals with any who are traveling our way. We
need more builders. We need more research. I often make this analogy:
It's like we are all writing a book, but we here at MDI are just a few
pages ahead of others. Nevertheless, we need others to help us write and
read this book.
We are, and will be forever grateful for those who help pioneer this industry.
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